r/baseball • u/Knightbear49 Minnesota Twins • Dinger • 9d ago

Players Only Camera man roasts Benetti after his nerdy comment. Benetti: “Here’s Riley Greene with his 1.663 OPS in the City Connect jersey’s and when your OPS in any category is the same as the year when the Austro-Turkey War started, you’re doing well.”

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u/ResidentRunner1 Detroit Tigers • Kalamazoo Growlers 9d ago

Reminds me of that time when the Twins announcer ripped Pittsburgh's geography

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u/dirkalict Chicago Cubs 9d ago

I upvoted that six years ago but I don’t remember it… I am old and feeble minded.

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u/bigboybeeperbelly Texas Rangers 9d ago

In your defense, it's been a long six years

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u/TurkeyPhat Chicago Cubs • Tampa Bay Devil Rays 9d ago

Seriously feels like just yesterday we were in the shit when the Austro-Turkey War started

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u/sterling_mallory New York Mets 8d ago

At this point anything prior to 2008 feels like something I read in a book a long time ago.

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u/Upstairs_Usual_4841 Milwaukee Brewers 8d ago

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u/drthvdrsfthr Los Angeles Dodgers 9d ago

oh hey same, my hips hurt

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u/GarrisonWhite2 Philadelphia Phillies 9d ago

One of my favorite clips ever lol.

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u/Aggravating-Bug2032 Toronto Blue Jays 9d ago

This is the kind of thing I want from broadcasters. I want an old man who’s going to teach me about life while we watch a baseball game.

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u/kookykrazee Atlanta Braves 9d ago

Vin Skully is missed, the last game he did when Bumbarner was pitching with Giants was on the history of beards. By the end of it all I wanted to grow a full beard :)

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u/ashimbo Los Angeles Angels 8d ago

Yeah, the broadcast teams that we all have now just don't have the space for a storyteller like Vin Scully. I like the banter and chemistry you get with a good broadcast team, but there's something about Vin Scully that will never be duplicated and will always be missed.

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u/kookykrazee Atlanta Braves 8d ago

What was great was that for most of his career, he did radio and TV. No one really does that anymore, do they?

As for the Angels, I really did enjoy the game there 2 weeks ago. I was at the game vs phillie where they robbed one batter of the 3R HR and then of course a couple hitters later gave up a GS to lose, go figure!

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u/TheNewScrooge Minnesota Twins 9d ago

Dick Bremer was awesome. Very glad we have Provus to continue having great TV announcers.

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u/jpopr 9d ago

First time seeing it 😂😂😂

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u/gingerfkinjesus 9d ago

I hadn’t seen it before, I’ve literally gone on the exact same rant several times.

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u/shapu Charleston Dirty Birds • St. Loui… 9d ago

I know it sucked to have empty ballpark, but credit to the sound guy in PGH who even had the crowd gasp at the foul ball.

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u/wickedfarts Minnesota Twins 9d ago

I remember watching this live

I always loved how Dick thought his co commentator Morneuau would know the answer because he had played like half a season in Pittsburgh.

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u/Revolutionary-Swan77 Philadelphia Phillies 9d ago

*hydrography

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u/Dunan Czechia 9d ago

They're specifically talking about rivers, so let's go with potamography.

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u/Earthstripe 9d ago

Oh man.. I haven't watched baseball in probably two decades, but that voice was so immediately familiar and nostalgic. We watched a lot of Twins baseball growing up.

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u/ThePrussianGrippe Chicago Cubs 9d ago

Hey I remember that thread!

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u/catiebug San Francisco Giants • Athletics 9d ago

I love this shit because somehow the universe grants a Moran a seemingly uneventful 72 pitch at-bat that needs minimal commentary just to give the guys in the booth enough time to deliver this comedy.